Guides
Kerry (she/her), founder and director, is a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, educator and deep ecologist who integrates Earth wisdom traditions, contemporary science and somatic resiliency…
Kristin (she/free) is a social change leader, with a focus on the intersection of personal, social and ecological healing and transformation. She recently earned a Certificate in Spirituality and Social…
“The kind of change we are after is cellular as well as institutional, is personal and intimate, is collective as well as cultural. We are making love synonymous with justice. ”
Guest Teachers
Brock (he/him) is a wildlife biologist and is nationally recognized as a restoration ecologist and renowned innovator in watershed management and Permaculture design. OAEC.org
Nikola (he/they) is the Co-Creator & Stewardship Lead of Shelterwood Collective, a 900-acre Indigenous, Black, Disabled, and Queer-led community forest and collective of land protectors and cultural changemakers.
“We shall not sever ourselves from the earth. We must chant our being, and we must dance in time with the rhythms of the earth.”
is an ecologist, writer, editor, media-maker and native scholar-activist. She is the president/CEO of The Cultural Conservancy, a Native-led indigenous rights organization she had directed since 1993…
Gopal (he/him) has been involved in fighting for social, economic, environmental and racial justice through organizing & campaigning, teaching, writing, speaking and direct action…
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”